We have changed our privacy policy. In addition, we use cookies on our website for various purposes. By continuing on our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can learn about our practices by reading our privacy policy.

The Art of Fielding Chapter 14 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Pella heads to the athletic center to swim, but a giant half-naked lumberjack (Mike Schwartz) is sitting on the steps.
  • They introduce themselves, and he confesses to her that he's been rejected from law school.
  • She tells him that her dad's the school president, and Schwartz says it was his speech about Emerson that convinced him to go to college at Westish.
  • It was a speech about how Emerson dug up his dead wife's coffin to look at her decomposing body. (Um, that would make us want to run away, but okay.)
  • Pella clarifies that the dead wife had a name, and it was Ellen. Then they part ways.